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Tag Archives: Texas
Tea Party Turnout Totals
Texas leads the way with 18 protests and 64,000 attendees.
Posted in Chris' Page, Domestic Politics, taxes
Tagged Houston, protests, tea party, Texas
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List of All Tea Party Protests
A pretty comprehensive list for Texas here. I roughly estimate around 64 protests planned for just Texas. You’ll note that other states are listed on the right. I’m closer to the Sugarland one and may check it out. I’m curious … Continue reading
Posted in Chris' Page, Domestic Politics, taxes
Tagged Houston, protests, tea party, Texas
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Texas Bill Introduced to Reassert 10th Amendment Rights
H.C.R. 50 has been introduced to the Texas House. Authored by Texas State Representatives Brandon Creighton, Bryan Hughes, and Leo Berman, it reasserts Texas’s rights of sovereignty under the 10th Amendment of the US Constitution. RESOLVED, That the 81st Legislature … Continue reading
Posted in Chris' Page, Domestic Politics, Law, Libertarianism
Tagged 10th amendment, bill of rights, sovereinty, states rights, Texas
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Texas = Best State in the Country
Financially according to the Financial Times. Check out this interactive map of the states and their comparative rankings in different financial categories. (HT: Megan McArdle)
Longhorns TV?
Looks like we might not be seeing much more of Chris when this launches.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged channel, college football, Longhorns, Sports, television, Texas, tv, UT
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Stick to Foam Peanuts
A Kansas family noticed that the shipping materials used by a Texas company were composed of shredded personal checks. The family was able to tape the shards back together, revealing numerous account numbers. The company says they’ve been using shredded … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged account numbers, Add new tag, banking, checks, fraud, identity theft, Kansas, Texas
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Greatest Judicial Opinion of Our Time
This has to be seen by all judicial and college football fans. I’m not sure what the original complaint was, but the opinion is great. Pay special attention to the footnotes to learn that it is the official opinion of … Continue reading
Posted in Chris' Page, Humor, Law
Tagged Arkansas, court, game of the century, judges, Texas
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In Absolut Mockery
Many of you may have seen the Absolut Vodka ad that ran in a Mexican magazine recently in links around the blogosphere. Now the mocking has begun as well. I submit this more historically accurate version of their ad. While … Continue reading
Posted in Chris' Page, Humor
Tagged absolut vodka, advertising, aztalan, Mexico, mockery, Texas
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An Argument Against Public Education
Via Glenn Reynolds, Wired posts an article describing the fight to include evolution in the science curriculum for students in Florida and Texas: Charles Darwin was born 199 years ago Tuesday, but the debate he ignited about the origins of … Continue reading
Ronpaul’s Millions
One of the sadder aspects of Ronpaul’s candidacy is how many people (who can barely afford to do so), have been convinced to give well over their means to his campaign. My friend Jason has a co-worker who he believes … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged campaign, CBS News, Lew Rockwell, money, Ron Paul, Ronpaulism, Texas, Vaughn Ververs
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Sharia Law Enforced in Texas!
Well, kinda. After the whole row over the Archbishop of Canterbury’s declaration that Sharia Law in Britain is “unavoidable“, Eugene Volokh notes that it has been allowed in some US court, in a way. It seems some parties entered into … Continue reading
Posted in Chris' Page, Law, Religion and theology
Tagged archbishop of canterbury, Law, sharia, Texas
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Hanging Out in the TMC
Yeah, that’s me after a few too many cocktails in the hotel lounge. As Lance related, I’m in Houston in the Texas Medical Center (TMC) visiting my father who recently had an internal defibrillator put on his heart. The surgery … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, Lee's Page, Travel
Tagged allergist, Ballardian, Baylor College of Medicine, Ben Taub Hospital, boutique, Cayman, Christian Louboutin, clinics, doctors, European, filipina, Health Care, hospitals, Houston, JG Ballard, John P. McGovern, Manolo Blahnik, MD Anderson Cancer Center, medical, Methodist Hospital, nurses, Porsche, Prada, receptioniss, research, Saudi, Super-Cannes, Technology, Texas, Texas Children's Hospital, Texas Medical Center, wives
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